Can You Lend Me a Hand? Task-Role Alignment of Social Support for Aspiring Business Owners

Work and Occupations

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 213-249

  Kim, Phillip H ^a   Longest, Kyle C ^b   Aldrich, Howard E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

business ownership; entrepreneurship; role expectations; self employment; social support; task role alignment; work family issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879752864     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888413481365     Document Type: Article

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